chefware

chefware noun: high-end cooking supplies such as knives, pans, and utensils.

Noun

chefware (uncountable)

(rare) High-end cooking supplies such as knives, pans, and utensils.
- Look over this set of chefware on display in our store. We know you will agree that it is the nicest food service equipment obtainable.1966 January 6, Gasconade County Republican, volume 63, number 12, Owensville, Mo., page 2B
- Triple coating of easy-to-clean chefware with stainless steel rims to prevent chipping.1969 September 21, Durham Morning Herald, Durham, N.C.

The place for professional chefware at the economical prices restaurants pay.1997, Michael Wolff, editor, Net Guide: Your Complete Guide to the Internet and Online Services, Dell Publishing, →ISBN, page 417:
Mirror finished, copper-sandwich-based, Escoffier chefware is the ultimate in chefware saucepans, skillets and stockpots.1997 July 8, The Sydney Morning Herald, number 49,874, section “Good Living”, page 2:
(None of the other cookware sets tested was chefware.)2003 August 13, Elizabeth Large, “Hot Pots: Celebrity chefs create a stir with their own lines of kitchenware”, in The Sun, Baltimore, Md....
Here are some suggestions to get you started, although these are by no means the only places chefware is sold.2003 December 10, “Where to buy pots, pans”, in Chicago Tribune, 157th year, number 344, section 7, page 5:

From chef + -ware.

What does chefware mean?: Chefware means high-end cooking supplies such as knives, pans, and utensils.
How do you use chefware in a sentence?: The place for professional chefware at the economical prices restaurants pay.
What part of speech is chefware?: Chefware is a noun.

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